generated: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://www.npmjs.com/package/@datadog/datadog-ci, https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-ci,
  https://docs.datadoghq.com/
provider: Datadog APM
providerId: datadog-apm
name: datadog-ci
official: true
version: 5.23.0
published: '2026-08-17'
description: >-
  Datadog's first-party command line interface. It is a CI/CD-oriented CLI rather than a general REST
  API client — it uploads artifacts and results to Datadog and gates pipelines on Datadog signals.
  There is no first-party CLI that wraps the SLO / spans / retention-filter REST surface in openapi/;
  that surface is reached through the generated client libraries in packages/.
install:
- method: npm
  command: npm install -g @datadog/datadog-ci
- method: npx
  command: npx @datadog/datadog-ci <command>
- method: standalone binary
  note: >-
    Standalone binaries are published on the GitHub releases page; the exact asset names were not
    fetched and are not listed rather than guessed.
repository: https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-ci
package: packages/datadog-apm-packages.yml
command_groups:
  note: >-
    Command groups are recorded only where the CLI's own published surface names them. This list is
    deliberately not exhaustive — it is not derived from a fetched --help output.
  apm_relevant:
  - group: trace
    purpose: Instrument CI pipeline commands so they appear as APM traces/spans in Datadog.
  - group: deployment
    purpose: Mark deployments and gate them, feeding Change Tracking, which the MCP change-story tools read.
related_cli:
- name: ddev
  official: true
  purpose: Datadog Agent integration developer tooling — building and testing Agent integrations.
  note: Not an API client; recorded so the two Datadog CLIs are not conflated.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com